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triggerman

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Anyone out here run a tourney and allow virtual doubles?
« on: November 05, 2014, 08:29:38 AM »
Anyone out here run a tourney and allow virtual doubles?

Little background, we run a tourney twice a year, once in april once in October, it’s a mixed doubles 9 pin no tap, under the black lights cosmic type of thing we almost fill three squads at a 32 lane house, the problem is we run short of female bowlers.A suggestion was brought up last night to possibly allow virtual entries, IE lets say female bowler Kathy is bowling all three shirts right now, but there are 7 other guys she could have bowled with, we want to allow a virtual entry where as those 7 guys are bowling that same shift with other female bowlers but they could turn in a virtual entry with Kathy and in essence we could net another 7 entries (reduced rate) but would have no lineage or food cost associated to those entries.Anyone do this?If so how did you set up the score keeping

 

spmcgivern

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Re: Anyone out here run a tourney and allow virtual doubles?
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2014, 09:43:53 AM »
I have done that as crossovers in the past.  But for me, it was a different pot of money to be handed out.  It was never part of the main prize fund. 

triggerman

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Re: Anyone out here run a tourney and allow virtual doubles?
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2014, 01:01:32 PM »
how did you keep track of everything, IE entries and payments

spmcgivern

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Re: Anyone out here run a tourney and allow virtual doubles?
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2014, 03:18:24 PM »
It was a bit of a pain at times.  For example bowler A would show up and he would know of 15-20 different other bowlers that would be bowling.  He would put his name with all 15-20 and pay.  This would go on for any and all bowlers.  Using a computer would make it easier to keep track.  It cost anywhere from $2-$5 per entrant.  Keeping the cost low made for more entries.  It is hard to explain through typing, but needless to say, you would need someone with organizational skills to keep track of all the combinations.  We had times when there would be 200+ different partners. 

If you made it part of the main tournament, I am not sure how many you could get.  One of the possibilities is to allow individuals bowl and have their score go along with another bowler who is actually bowling with someone.  But that is a totally different environment.